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Americans are not happy NASA is not ending the space shuttle program.

The founder of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) would like to see humans set up a colony on Mars in the next few decades.

More debris from a spacecraft that broke up while re-entering Earth's atmosphere eight years ago has been discovered. On February 1, 2003, space shuttle Columbia scattered debris in the East Texas city of Nacogdoches.

The first close-up pictures of the asteroid Vesta, a protoplanet that dates back to the early days of the solar system, revealed a surprisingly diverse terrain and several unexplained geologic features, NASA scientists said on Monday.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft gets a clear image of the Vesta asteroid.

NASA's Dawn mission spacecraft will descend to a 1,700-mile-high orbit on Aug. 11 where scientist will begin an examination of the Vesta asteroid, the second-largest in the main asteroid belt.

Turning a new page in her post-shooting life, U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords attended Congress last night to take part in the voting on the debt deal.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, has provided striking latest images of the asteroid Vesta, the second-most largest in the asteroid belt.

Space Exploration Technologies, a privately owned firm developing a space taxi with U.S.-government backing, plans to launch its second test capsule on November 30 and send it all the way to the International Space Station, a company manager said on Thursday.

The Vesta is the second-largest asteroid in the main asteroid belt, which is located between Mars and Jupiter.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft slipped into the asteroid's orbit last month and already beamed hundreds of images for scientists to begin poring over. NASA has taken images over the Vesta's northern Hemisphere after the spacecraft finished its first passage over the dark side of the giant asteroid.

Private spaceflight firm Space Exploration Technologies, SpaceX, which is preparing to send a space capsule to the International Space Station this November, will team up with NASA to send a mission to search for life on Mars.

NASA, which has sent men to the moon and space for decades, may have to shelve its ambitious plans of sending astronauts to further reaches of space beyond the moon - it faces nearly $1 billion in cleanup costs for the deep chemical messes it has left behind at Kennedy Space Center and other launch centers.

Russian cosmonauts will undertake a spacewalk leaving the International Space Station on Wednesday to move a cargo boom from one airlock to another, install a prototype laser communications system and deploy Ham Radio's amateur micro-satellite.

Space Exploration Technologies, or simply SpaceX, and other private sector companies are vying to fill the void for transport to space after the U.S. government put the breaks on its own shuttle program.

One of the biggest questions that scientists usually face is why the sun's corona is so hot. Well, thanks to a new research, it seems that scientists are now one step closer to unearth the mystery.

Danger looms at the International Space Station (ISS) as Space Junk, mainly parts of old rockets and satellites, either abandoned or destroyed in orbit, is increasingly posing threats to the internationally-developed research facility.

Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke said, "The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing." Now that laughing has come to a halt, people can count on the years before Space Elevator becomes a reality.

Privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or Space X, is planning to fill the void left by the retiring U.S. space shuttle program with its own space taxi as it ramps up for a test later this year.

Global warming predictions have followed UN models and trends in describing how Earth traps heat due to carbon dioxide. The increased gases and rising temperatures would create large amounts of water vapors to develop into clouds. Those clouds would trap larger amounts of heat and devastate the planet's ecosystem leading to the end of mankind.

Russian Space Agency Roscosmos went back on its words on Thursday after an uproar over a statement by agency?s deputy head, who said on Wednesday that Russia and its partners plan to sink the International Space Station in the ocean.